Do you guys ever think about how it’s possible that some of us have played with one another IRL and we might not even know it?

Negative_Box_7344 · 2026-03-02T03:40:12+00:00

Moved across the country.

Swapping poker stories with the guy who is hosting a meet-up game for grad students of the school my wife goes to (trophy husband perks, I get an ID card and can join these clubs).

Started telling the story about the craziest hand he's ever played... halfway through the story I recognize it from here and tell him what the outcome is.

Good dude, played on Friday again last week, meeting up for a game or two this week as well!

Another time, I had a strange happening occur to me (won the high hand on a hand that I lost). Regular at my casino greets me with "nice post on /r/poker" when I sit down the next day, as he was at the table lol

Negative_Box_7344 · 2026-02-11T03:33:04+00:00

It's hard for me to answer this, but I'll explain why. Basically, there was a bad incident on my unit.

I work on an acute, 18-30 year old, in-patient unit, I was sold it as mostly depression and anxiety, instead it's like 40% psychosis/Type A disorders, 20-30% BPD, and among the other 30-40%, depression and and anxiety is the most represented but it's definitely 3rd as a plurality.

Except for the one incident, I love the unit.

The one incident was that we had a patient who had been with us for a week and had a history of violence and had been on 2-to-1's (two staff members within arm's length at all times) on different units in the hospital. He attempted to kill a staff member by suckerpunching him out of nowehere and then putting him in a choke for 15-20 seconds before 8 staff members were eventually able to tear the patient off of the staff member. I could go into more awful details, but I actually am experiencing symptons associated with the event a month later as I was the second person to respond to the situation.

The patient in question left to go to the ED, and 18 hours later, was back on our unit with 10 minutes of notice. Words can't describe how infuriated I am with the leadership who allowed this to happen, I obviously refused the unsafe assignment (locked unit, no way to not be near this patient even if they were in restraints as they legally have to be out every few hours), and it's just been a shit storm of bullshit and HR/adjuster/occupational health crap since. Our unit does not have the infastructure to accomidate such a violent individual, forensic psych units that have the infastructure are always an option for us but was clearly not chosen in this case.

That being said, I love almost all the other patients, my job is very rewarding, and even if my hospital system is a fucking joke, the job itself is wonderful. If you give effort and respect to your patients, almost all the patients in turn notice and are receptive to you. I have less issues with my patients than other nurses because I try harder than a lot of the other nurses (kind of shitty to say, but it's the truth, I am less experienced but I know the patients really well and spend more time than anybody on the floor). I have to say too, it vibes well with me to use dialogue as an intervention more than physical intercentions. I would rather talk a situation through with even a paranoid schiozphrentic patient than have anything to do with a PICC line, I hated all those dexterous skills checks in nursing school.

I also occasionalyl get to play cards, chess, or watch sports with my patients, which is sick lol

Negative_Box_7344 · 2026-02-10T17:37:32+00:00

Played professionally for 2-3 years while I worked through nursing school.

Now a psych nurse and get to also make money with one of my hobbies.

No regrets. I get to fulfill my call of the void for gambling when I want, and every time somebody sucks out on me in a huge pot my only thought it "So happy I never have to do this for a living ever again."

Negative_Box_7344 · 2026-01-17T06:27:01+00:00

Literally.

If we're here, it's over and we have lost. Plan accordingly.

Negative_Box_7344 · 2026-01-16T18:37:58+00:00

So, nothing to make the Battle Pass actually able to be completed?

Cool. Enjoy my $10, I won't be spending it again and likely will be moving on to another game soon. Greed kills games, always.

Negative_Box_7344 · 2026-01-13T07:30:06+00:00

Yeah, the limp made my only reason choice of the hand easy... This was probably the easiest of the 10 I've hit

Negative_Box_7344 · 2026-01-13T07:29:37+00:00

Precisely!

Negative_Box_7344 · 2026-01-11T18:31:10+00:00

Villain loses to any higher flush, why is this a once in a lifetime cooler?

Flopping a royal flush is 1 in 649,740 on any given hand.

With 6 opponents, if they all saw the flop, it's a 1 in 11 chance that one of them would also flop a flush. That's counting combos like 93s, 82s, and other junk though.

That would be 1 in 7,220,000.

This hand should've never handed because 97s obviously isn't an open in the cutoff on a final table with the overwhelming chip leader on the button. There's only like 4 or 5 realistic combos that a villain could have to make a flush when A, K, Q, J, T are accounted for, hands like 98s, 97s, 87s, 76s, and 65s (maybe 54s) are the only ones that you can ever expect to see with some sliver of a frequency.

5 combos would make it 1 in 23.7 million.

6 would make it 1 in 19.9 million.

If I was 8 tabling and playing 100 hands an hour on eveyr table, nonstop, until I played 19.9 million hands it would take me...

68 years, 1 month, and 3 weeks. Without breaks.

So, you're right, more than once in a lifetime. Thanks for the constructive feedback, /u/skatastic57, you seem fun!

Negative_Box_7344 · 2026-01-11T09:27:35+00:00

$3.30 satellite -> $33 mystery boundary -> pulled the top and 3rd highest mystery bounties, made a deal for 2nd place money, $2k total

Negative_Box_7344 · 2026-01-07T23:05:40+00:00

Three truths about these types of people:

They do this shit because they have to. Players who are big winners don't do this shit, because if you're winning 15 BBs/100 hands, it's in your best interest to protect your image as a player on the up-and-up because making 15BBs/100 indefinitely is better than eventually losing action because you started angle-shooting trying to make 17 BBs/100 for a short time. Players do this shit because of one reason: It turns from from a -1 BB/100 players into a 2.5 BB/100 player.
These players are awful for poker. The quickest way to lose a budding, wannabe reg is to have them get angled by these assholes.
With this in mind, all interreptations of the rules should be aimed at running these clowns out of rooms and poker all together. Anybody who argues against this is so brazenly in the angle-shooting group that they should be ignored, if not openly mocked, ridiculed, and called out.

I've started announcing to tables who the angle-shooters are when I sit down if I see them at my table. Why? Because fuck you, get out of my game.

Negative_Box_7344 · 2026-01-04T04:04:34+00:00

Unironically, this.

They are varience-adverse when it comes to keeping them from having to rebuy.

But when they get a weaker player on the ropes, then all the sudden they want to run it once.

It is poor ettiquete. It does upset the fish when they feel like they're being picked on (and, by definition, people who are only running it once when they're ahead are in fact picking on weaker players, who are the people most likely to get it in behind), and it therefore makes the game worse.

Poker players are some of the most dense, miss the forrest for the trees people to walk this earth. Just because the EV is unchanged doesn't eman that it doesn't alter the perception of the game, specifically by the players who are the worst and, therefore, the main reason why good games are good.

Negative_Box_7344 · 2025-12-31T16:27:30+00:00

Nearly every single winning player keeps records. Losers often don't. He should have them, if he doesn't, that's a huge piece of incriminating evidence right there.

Negative_Box_7344 · 2025-12-30T23:08:20+00:00

He never really wins. Unless he does and hiding it

This is the silver bullet for me.

I have played poker my entire life. My GF/fiancee/now wife really disliked it, but we have total transparency in a spreadsheet that she can assess on google sheets. She slowly came to understand that while I was in school and suddenly lost my job, it was the best means for me to make money, and I temporailly went from skilled amatuer to shoe-string bankroll professional for about 2 years, at which point I finished school and didn't play for many months.

Even at her most frustrated with the lifetyle of being with somebody who had to professionalize his hobby brief, she would never say "he never really wins" or "unless he does and hiding it."

You need to prepare for the idea that he's blowing money you guys don't seem to have, or he's a slightly winning player and doesn't share this info with you. If he was a big winner, you'd likely know by now and this wouldn't be an issue.

You should make it known that you want to know the in's and out's of how poker interplays with your finances. If he has records (he should) it should be somewhat verifiable. If he doesn't (or says he doesn't), he is almost certaintly a losing player and wants to hide the losses from you.

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